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<font style="font-size:12px" face="Segoe UI"><b>THE FOOT IN THE
PHONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF ENGLISH</b><br>
A workshop at the 20th International Conference on English
Historical Linguistics (ICEHL XX)<br>
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27-30 August 2018, Edinburgh<br>
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Workshop website: <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.conferences.cahss.ed.ac.uk_icehl20_foot-2Dphonological-2Dhistory-2Denglish_&d=DwMDaQ&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=xWgwnXzyLjTDtEN1jkc-sliD_cd49k7fc7XSMi_8aeo&m=jI3DiOBQp0twmcDc5SpBjNSOUD7B5T2hCMXZ2mfD5U8&s=5my0JnrdJNhPONlRbGJYHymlY4byPgqUuk-8x0wNUFg&e=">
http://www.conferences.cahss.ed.ac.uk/icehl20/foot-phonological-history-english/</a><br>
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<b>Call deadline</b>
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<p><font style="font-size:12px" face="Segoe UI"><b>Organisers</b></font></p>
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<p><font style="font-size:12px" face="Segoe UI">Ricardo
Bermúdez-Otero (University of Manchester)<br>
Patrick Honeybone (University of Edinburgh)<br>
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</font> <font style="font-size:12px" face="Segoe UI"><b>Background</b></font></p>
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<p><font style="font-size:12px" face="Segoe UI">One of the central
questions in the phonology of any language is: what type of
phonological foot does it have? If we ask this question of
English, with its long-recorded history, we can further ask: has
the type of foot that the language uses changed over time? A
crucial follow-on question, which needs to be answered at both
historical and contemporary levels is: what kinds of evidence
can we use to determine the foot structure of a language? And
when we consider the evidence that can be used to investigate
the history of English a further question arises: what
relationship is there between the feet used in a language’s
phonology and in the metre of a language’s poetry?<br>
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The answers that we give to these questions naturally depend in
part on the types of foot that are assumed to be allowed in
phonology. Some, such as Abercrombie, have simply assumed that –
in a language like English – all the material between stresses
is gathered up exhaustively into feet. Hayes has famously
proposed a universal inventory of feet: the syllabic trochee,
the moraic trochee and iamb. Dresher & Lahiri have argued
that, in addition to this, we need the Germanic foot to cope
with data from Germanic languages such as English. Several types
of data have been proposed to be relevant in considering the
fundamental questions that this workshop addresses, including
patterns in stress assignment, syncope (as in Old English High
Vowel Deletion), prosodic morphology, metre, and consonantal
distribution.<br>
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This workshop aims to provide a forum in which we can discuss
these issues as they relate to the phonological history of
English. Any type of evidence is welcome, as is any theoretical
position. What role <i> has</i> the foot played in the history
of English?</font></p>
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<p><font style="font-size:12px" face="Segoe UI"><b>Confirmed
contributors</b></font></p>
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<p><font style="font-size:12px" face="Segoe UI">The following
speakers have already confirmed their participation:</font></p>
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<p><font style="font-size:12px" face="Segoe UI">• Ricardo
Bermúdez-Otero: ‘Diagnostics of the moraic trochee from
Proto-Germanic to the present: (LL)~(H) equivalence, (LH) and
(HL) avoidance’<br>
• Elan Dresher & Aditi Lahiri: ‘The foot in English’<br>
• Patrick Honeybone: ‘Evidence for English foot structure from
consonantal processes: moras count’<br>
• Donka Minkova: ‘Binary and ternary feet in early English
phonology and metrics’<br>
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</font> <font style="font-size:12px" face="Segoe UI"><b>Submission
instructions</b></font></p>
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<p><font style="font-size:12px" face="Segoe UI">We invite additional
contributions to this workshop. Plase submit your abstracts
through the <b>EasyAbs abstract submission system</b>,
selecting the option <b>Workshop 9</b> under </font><font
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<p><font style="font-size:12px" face="Segoe UI"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__linguistlist.org_easyabs_icehl2018&d=DwMDaQ&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=xWgwnXzyLjTDtEN1jkc-sliD_cd49k7fc7XSMi_8aeo&m=jI3DiOBQp0twmcDc5SpBjNSOUD7B5T2hCMXZ2mfD5U8&s=KFBiBAPl03XTRT46D2Bw_oWKYg1jOI-5deV5WHJcncE&e=">http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/icehl2018</a></font></p>
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<p><font style="font-size:12px" face="Segoe UI">Submission closes on
<b>15 December 201</b><b>7</b>. Abstracts should not exceed <b>400
words</b> and should list three to five keywords.</font></p>
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